Leander Engström
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"Porträtt av grevinnan Bille-Brahe"
Signed Leander Engström. Executed in 1917. Canvas 81 x 65.5 cm.
Provenance
Originally in Dr Helge Dahlstedt's collections, Österås.
Subsecuently by inheritance to civil engeneer Stellan Dahlstedt.
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Exhibitions
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, "Den unga expressionismen", 1944.
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, "Leander Engström", 1986, cat no 46.
Museet Kulturhuset, Borås, "Leander Engström", 1986-87.
Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm, "Den stora färgskrällen", 2008.
Literature
"Konst i svenska hem", no. 9, catalogoued p. 449 under collection 776: "Helge Dahlstedt - Överläkare, Eva Mörner-Dahlstedt, Österåsens sanatorium".
Hans-Olof Boström, Åke Fant och Dag Widman, "Leander Engström", 1986, illustrated in colour full-page image 46.
More information
Leander Engström met Isaac Grünewald while studying art in Stockholm. Grünewald convinced Engström to travel to Paris and study for the great Henri Matisse in 1908. From Matisse Engström learned to paint the female body and to use colors in a expressionist way. This portrait depicts the Danish countess Bille-Brahe who is depicted with a fresh palette and dressed in a fashionable way with a dreamy facial expression.